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Passengers on flight to Auckland describe ‘mid-air drop’ with people thrown from their seats

Fifty people have been treated by ambulance crews and 13 people are in hospital after an in-bound aircraft to Auckland experienced a “strong movement” mid-flight that reportedly saw passengers suddenly thrown about the plane.

In a statement, Hato Hone St John Ambulance said the organisation responded to an incident at Auckland International airport involving an inbound aircraft after a call at 3.58pm local time on Monday.

Five ambulances, a major incident support team vehicle, two rapid response vehicles and a number of senior personnel were dispatched to treat passengers who had been injured on the flight.

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[-] Mint_Raccoon@kbin.social 7 points 8 months ago

It might be something like Qantas 72 where a fault in a component that supplies vital data to the flight computer caused two uncontrolled drops which resulted in over 100 people getting injured.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

A dive I can understand, but is there a difference between a dive and a drop? As a layman, I imagine when they say it dropped, they mean they lost altitude without pitching down (though obviously they'd pitch down naturally to regain airspeed).

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